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`TO ALL `WH'OMI IT MY CONCERNQ `Be it known that I, A. W. WEBSTER, 'of-Ansonia, in the county of 'New-Haven, and State of (lonnecticutLy have invented a new and useful Improvement inCorsets; and Indo-hereby declare that the `following is a full,

clear, and exact description thereof, which `will enabletliose skilled in the. art to make and use the same, ,l

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The present invention relates more particularly to the clasps for corsets, and it consists in making the" hook portion or part of such clasps of wire, bent into theA proper sha-pe therefor, whereby rivets are dispensedwith, and astronger and more reliable, as well asa cheaper clasp produced. In the accompanying plate of drawings my improvement is illustrated- Figure 1 being a front view of the same, as applied to the corset-springs.

Figure 2, a. transverse section, taken in the plane of the line z z, iig. 1; and Figures 3 and 4, similar views to vfigs. l and'2 respectively, 4but of the old form of clasps.

A, inthe-drawings, represents my improved corset-clasp hook, which is-'made of wire, whether bra-ss, s'teel, jiron, or other suitable kind of metal,l or other material, bent vinto theshape shown in iig.. 1 of` 'the drawings, org"^ into any other suitable shape that will allow'it to receive and hold the headed stud or pin forming the other part of the clasp, as in the ordinary clasp of'corsets. By the two endsof the wire which constitute the hook A, the hook is secured to the spring-band of the corset, lon which they are usually attached; these ends being l.

passed through suitable holes in the said band, and then upset or riveted upon the under side' of the same.

The above-described form of hook 'for' the clasps of corsets is much cheaper than the ordinary form, not' onl7 in cost of manufacture, but in the expense of applying it to. the corset-band, as my improved form disn penses with the use, of two separate rivets.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patentv A corset-fastening, composed of the wire A, attached to the brusk by its own ends, substantiallyfas' described v and for the purpose set forth. l

A. W. WEBSTER.

Witnesses MARY CoLBUnN, HOWARD OoLnURN. 

